The American Civil War Museum in Appomattox, Virginia hosted this program. Description This lesson focuses on the first use of landmines in North America, during the American Civil War (1861-65).

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry.Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

This is the background to Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman's ("Green on Blue") and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Adm. James Stavridis' new book, "2054."It's the second in what will be a ...

Stephen Marche, author of “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future,” said: “The United States is a textbook example of a country headed for civil war.” ...

The clearest picture of what caused the Civil War, I have argued, emerges in the words of some 50 men who served their slave states as secession commissioners in late 1860 and early 1861.

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...

The Mexican-American War: Photos from the 1800s show a young nation's conflict Prominent American Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stonewall Jackson were among those who ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing. Before the war, most nurses ...

In the summer of 1863, the U.S. was in the middle of its greatest-ever crisis. A bloody civil war between the Southern Confederacy and the federal government had created hundreds of thousands of ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...